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%SystemRoot% is the technically correct way of phrasing it, but in nearly all cases (and almost surely yours), it is C:\Windows, so the shortcut you want is to this file:

C:\Windows\system32\diskmgmt.msc

There will be one such file with that name in that folder. Don't search for it. Just go straight to that file with Windows/File Explorer (or whatever file manager you use), right-click on it, and then left-click Create Shortcut. As my article should have shown (I'll update it soon), you'll get this:

Click Yes and you'll have the shortcut on your desktop.

> I just realized that "Disk Management" is not an option in Device Manager but in "Computer Management"!

Correct, and you can certainly get to Disk Management via Computer Management, but the shortcut will take you right there.

> but with all the dskmgmt.msu files

First, it's diskmgmt.msc, not diskmgmt.msu. Second, there's only one of interest, as I mentioned above.

Re your comment on the screenshot, one computer doesn't see the other computer's disk assignments, so when you connect an external drive on one computer, the letter assigned to it is unrelated to the letter that gets assigned when it is connected to a different computer. Regards, Joe

mikecox_Author Commented: 2015-07-23

The original question was answered when I learned that Drive letter changes are local, the letter I assign on my desktop will not be the letter my laptop sees; my laptop will sees the letter I assigned to the drive when I was on that laptop.

I thought a drive letter assignment stayed with the drive and whatever computer I plugged it into would reflect that letter.

As for Disk management vs Device manager. confusion, I don't know why I didn't get the disk Management option when I clicked the Device Manager option, which caused me to post this. But I just opened "Computer Management and clicked on the "Disk Management" option again and, after a slight pause, the Drive list appeared with their graphic representations; just as I expected it to do when I posted this question, and I was able to change the drive letter.

> The original question was answered when I learned that Drive letter changes are local, the letter I assign on my desktop will not be the letter my laptop sees; my laptop will sees the letter I assigned to the drive when I was on that laptop.

Yes, exactly!

> I thought a drive letter assignment stayed with the drive and whatever computer I plugged it into would reflect that letter.

Nope!

> As for Disk management vs Device manager. confusion, I don't know why I didn't get the disk Management option when I clicked the Device Manager option

Because they're two different things. Device Manager does not have Disk Management in it (as you've discovered, Computer Management has Disk Management in it).

> But I just opened "Computer Management and clicked on the "Disk Management" option again and, after a slight pause, the Drive list appeared with their graphic representations;

Yes, you can get to Disk Management via Computer Management. But if you use Disk Management a lot, as I do, it's an extra step, so I prefer to have a shortcut directly to Disk Management.

> I was able to change the drive letter.

Yes, Disk Management is where you change the drive letters.

> Joe, I didn't find that file here

Your screenshot shows just the folders. You need to look at the files in the System32 folder. Here's what you'll see inside the System32 folder:

Regards, Joe

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